SHE didn’t set out to be a published author – it happened by accident in many ways. While waiting for her youngest son to finish rehearsals for a local theatre production, she starting writing on a laptop she’d borrowed from a family member.
That tinkering turned out to be her debut novel, Slammed – and she had no idea then how it would change her life.
It was early 2012 and Colleen Hoover wanted to share the book with her mom, who’d just got an Amazon Kindle e-reader. She released it on Amazon’s then relatively new self-publishing platform, not expecting it to take off.
“I went into it so naively not knowing anything
